Infrastructure Requirements
As well as finding people who possess the necessary skills to work on your project, you need to put an appropriate infrastructure in place. These infrastructure requirements should be implemented in parallel with the development of the pilot project. Be sure to allow adequate time in the schedules for these extra tasks.
This is the minimalist list of infrastructure requirements that we recommend:
- Corporate Visual Basic 6 distributed architecture and strategy
- General application design standards
- Data design standards
- Distributed guidelines (such as connectivity method, use of stored procedures)
- GUI style guide
- Coding standards
- Distribution, installation, implementation, and upgrade guidelines
- Development environments (such as development, test, and production servers)
- Source control software and associated procedures
- Powerful, standardized developers' PCs fully configured with Visual Basic, Microsoft Access, relevant (and tested) custom controls, and a range of supporting utilities and tools
- Fully configured and tested server database with associated tools to add test data, stored procedures, and the like
- Fully implemented and tested workstation-to-server connectivity (should include network software, drivers, and so on)
- Education and training of those providing any of the above or filling technical roles